In the Shadow of Faith

An Irish immigrant family's heartbreaking involvement with the Irish Revolution was a distant event to its third generation children who turned its lingering secret operation into summertime games at their grandfather's riverside cottage. While their attention in the 1950s was centered about education and church, the three siblings were unknowingly drawn into the persistent Troubles conflict as it stretched from an American city to the bucolic Adirondack mountains and onto Ireland. In the calm of the post-World War II era, their turbulent lives were woven by the threads of their family's political and religious manipulation under which they unwittingly became pawns for hierarchal political power, personal lust and cultural/religious-sanctioned bigotry and betrayal.